Use of full stop after closing inverted comma, when the sentence enclosed with inverted commas has a full stop at the end

Solution 1:

Punctuation is a matter of style, and as such you should be guided by your manual of style. I use the Chicago Manual of Style, which advises

A period should be omitted at the end of a sentence that is included within another sentence.

On the side of the Atlantic that includes the CMS, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks:

The judgment says, "John is guilty."

The rest of the world places them where they make sense

The judgment says, "John is guilty".